This three percent statistic got a lot of media coverage back in 2011. Then Congress was considering cutting Federal funding for Planned Parenthood. So FactCheck.Org came to the rescue and supported Planned Parenthood’s assertion.

Q: How much of Planned Parenthood’s services are dedicated to abortions? Does the federal government fund those procedures?

A: Abortions represent 3 percent of total services provided by Planned Parenthood, and roughly 10 percent of its clients received an abortion. The group does receive federal funding, but the money cannot be used for abortions by law. (from here)

Did the FRC stretch the truth a mite? Perhaps, but let’s go back to the point of the video. We don’t want to missed the forest for the trees. That’s the forest missed by the author of that Christianity Today article. If you are pregnant and you go to a Planned Parenthood clinic, it is a near certainty you are going there to get an abortion.

Consider what we all know to be self-evident. How many women think of going to Planned Parenthood when they want a baby? Are there any? Of course not. So it is silly to argue that abortions are only a small part of Planned Parenthood business. Everybody knows Planned Parenthood exists to prevent and terminate pregnancies. When people hear “Planned Parenthood,” they think “abortion.”

Words From The Past

When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. — Socrates (from here)

“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.